EA's E3 press conference also included the expected announcement of the launch of Battlefield 3 Premium, a $49.99 package that bundles Back to Karkand for Battlefield 3 along with four new upcoming expansions for DICE's military shooter sequel, and includes two-weeks early access on each. This bundle also includes exclusive in-game items, "powerful features," and access to unique double-XP events. Word is those who purchase the PS3 edition can begin playing the Close Quarters expansion today, while the Windows and Xbox 360 editions of that DLC will launch for premium members next week. Here is the outline of the other upcoming expansions,

It is depressing to see many PC gamers buying Premium and hence support DICE and EA's policy of letting cheaters loose without punishment or even fixes to the netcode and the policy of taking their damn sweet time with important patches, letting the game rot away under its own bugs.

It's depressing. People shouldn't reward this behavior in any way and yet here we are, the fanboys running to grab a broken title. I hope everyone who bought Premium drowns in servers full of cheaters with no way of them being able to do a decent game.

Joss wrote on Jun 4, 2012, 19:41:Strange, that's when I clocked out too.

Not strange at all- it's about the time the radar hack was released. I noticed my superior use of cover/concealment suddenly didn't work anymore.

There was a hilarious thread on reddit where some guy broke down, bought the multihack and went into some popular servers (including the reddit one). Many people have claimed they don't notice the hacks so they don't think they are as prevalent as others claim. One of the multihack features is to see who is aiming at you. You can see where this is going now. An alarming number of players were tracking him through cover and impenetrable objects on each server. If someone just tags you with their cursor it doesn't register very high so this wasn't accidental stuff, it was 100% tracking.

Previous to that I had known there were cheaters but it wasn't enough to ruin the game for me. After seeing some names I recognized in that video I finally just enough is enough. Dice was supposed to fix this stuff in the last patch, they claimed they were making a big update to the netcode to put a stop to it. Instead pretty much every hack from before the patch continues to work just fine with minor changes.